Word: carres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...EMPEROR'S SNUFF BOX-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). How a harassed and suggestible young Englishwoman was saved from almost certain conviction as the slayer of her fiance's father by the supershrewd deductions of Dr. Kinross, specialist in criminal psychology. A brilliant exercise in detecting, a chilling adventure in careful, cold-blooded villainy, a sterling bit of craftsmanship even though one important bit of evidence is held back...
...Illinois Senate race, Representative Raymond S. McKeough, candidate of the Kelly-Nash machine, has little present hope of catching the Chicago Tribune's candidate, Republican incumbent Senator C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks. In Colorado, incumbent Democratic Senator Edwin C. Johnson might lose to Governor Ralph L. Carr...
Teetering Colorado, which voted for Republican Governor Ralph L. Carr in 1938 and 1940 after 14 years in the Democratic column, set the stage for a bang-up struggle. Whichever party carries Colorado in November should get two Senate seats: the one now held by Democrat Edwin C. Johnson and one left vacant by the death of Democrat Alva B. Adams...
...real tussle will be between homespun Senator Johnson, who survived an attempt by Colorado New Dealers to oust him in last week's primary, and Governor Carr, who won the Republican nomination without opposition. Self-educated Ed Johnson, 58, who would have none of the Administration before Pearl Harbor, is dear to the hearts of Colorado's conservative Democrats and has a simple, plain-spoken genius for winning elections...
...Governor Carr, 54, is a bright new phenomenon in Rocky Mountain politics. Able, courageous, independent, he was a pre-Philadelphia booster for Wendell Willkie, supported President Roosevelt's foreign policy while thwacking the New Deal on domestic issues, proved his statesmanship and urbanity by his handling of the vexatious Japanese evacuation problem. Since he had to step out of the Governorship to run against Johnson, November's election will either raise Ralph Carr to new national prominence or throw him into temporary eclipse...